Translation: "Marking convinced a client to upgrade from type X to type Y and tell a journalist all about it, and I really really need the data transfer to go smoothly."

Question: "Did you test upgrading with Active Directory configured?"

Translation: "Umm.... my Active Directory settings seem to be lost, and all I did was upgrade and tweak a few things..."

Your goal is to find that story.

The story is what you really need to solve. The question is just how the other person is trying to describe the story. Understand the story and you can answer the question the person intended, not just the question the person asked.